Cloud Platform Engineer - CaaS

Container orchestration automation (initial scope)

• Maintained and enhanced the automated provisioning platform for AKS and EKS clusters
• Built and maintained validation logic for user submitted request forms to ensure inputs were safe and compliant before any cluster was created in the target environment
• Ensured all provisioned clusters complied with company security and governance policies
• Supported a catalogue of optional add-on modules users could select for automatic installation on their clusters, including orca-tunnel, Prometheus, Grafana, Velero and Kubernetes Dashboard etc.

Infrastructure as Code module development (current core work)

• Shifted team focus from the orchestration platform to building reusable IaC modules for AKS, EKS and other cloud serverless services like ECS and ACA
• Owned the design and delivery of the Azure Container App Managed Environment module
• Owned the design and delivery of the Azure Container App module

Operational Readiness Review (ORR) compliance

• Currently developing ORR checkpoints derived from alerts and findings raised by tooling such as Orca
• Objective is continuous verification of cluster compliance and operational readiness rather than point in time checks

Software Defined Infrastructure (emerging stream)

• Contributing to an initiative to define AI agents that let users interactively generate Terraform code for CaaS resources
• Generated code is constrained to remain compliant with company policy and standards by design

Skills a replacement will need

• Kubernetes on AKS and EKS, including policy driven cluster provisioning
• Terraform module design and maintenance at platform scale
• Azure Container Apps and equivalent serverless container services
• Cloud security and compliance tooling, Orca in particular
• Observability and backup tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Velero
• CI/CD and automation scripting

Container orchestration automation (initial scope)

• Maintained and enhanced the automated provisioning platform for AKS and EKS clusters
• Built and maintained validation logic for user submitted request forms to ensure inputs were safe and compliant before any cluster was created in the target environment
• Ensured all provisioned clusters complied with company security and governance policies
• Supported a catalogue of optional add-on modules users could select for automatic installation on their clusters, including orca-tunnel, Prometheus, Grafana, Velero and Kubernetes Dashboard etc.

Infrastructure as Code module development (current core work)

• Shifted team focus from the orchestration platform to building reusable IaC modules for AKS, EKS and other cloud serverless services like ECS and ACA
• Owned the design and delivery of the Azure Container App Managed Environment module
• Owned the design and delivery of the Azure Container App module

Operational Readiness Review (ORR) compliance

• Currently developing ORR checkpoints derived from alerts and findings raised by tooling such as Orca
• Objective is continuous verification of cluster compliance and operational readiness rather than point in time checks

Software Defined Infrastructure (emerging stream)

• Contributing to an initiative to define AI agents that let users interactively generate Terraform code for CaaS resources
• Generated code is constrained to remain compliant with company policy and standards by design

Skills a replacement will need

• Kubernetes on AKS and EKS, including policy driven cluster provisioning
• Terraform module design and maintenance at platform scale
• Azure Container Apps and equivalent serverless container services
• Cloud security and compliance tooling, Orca in particular
• Observability and backup tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Velero
• CI/CD and automation scripting

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